4893 2007-07-30 16:27:29 +0000 XML CDATA marked sections 2009-02-26 14:37:23 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified CSSValidator XHTML1.0 CSS Validator PC Windows XP RESOLVED FIXED P2 normal --- 1 chris dave.null ot www-validator-cvs oldest_to_newest 15967 0 chris 2007-07-30 16:27:29 +0000 The CSS validator doesn't seem to know about CDATA marked sections in XML. So for example <style type="text/css"><![CDATA[ .note { color:green } ]]></style> gives an error Lexical error at line 1, column 3. Encountered: "[" (91), after : "<!" The CSS parser should not see this syntax because the XML parser removes it. It looks as if whatever is doing the parsing is not XML; alternatively, its the CSS pasrser (which allows HTML and XML comments, <!-- --> in CSS due to common bugwards-compatible ways of hiding CSS from older HTML browsers). 23957 1 ot 2009-02-26 14:26:06 +0000 Relevant to this, when serving as text/html: http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-media-types/#C_4 23958 2 ylafon 2009-02-26 14:37:23 +0000 A few test cases: http://www.w3.org/2009/02/xhtmlcss.html served as application/xhtml+css, cdata section not escaped. The validator accept it as it should. http://www.w3.org/2009/02/xhtmlcss.html served as text/html, cdata section not escaped. The validator refuses to parse it as it should. (although the error should be better than it is now) http://www.w3.org/2009/02/xhtmlcssescaped.html served as text/html, cdata section escaped per http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-media-types/#C_4 The validator accept it as it should.